Councilmen P. G. Sittenfeld (left) and Wendell Young (right) and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls listened to City Manager Milton Dohoney during a September budget committee meeting.

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Jane Prendergast

Cincinnatians should know this week how the city manager proposes to fill next year's $34 million deficit, with the budget's release expected as soon as Monday.

A lot will be different about this budget:

? No layoffs recommended. In the past officials warned even before the budget came out that serious workforce cuts could be necessary. Each time City Council cut other things instead, many of them one-time cuts, which spared police officers and firefighters but did nothing to fix the budget's inherent structural imbalance - that the city spends more than it takes in. ...